Are Americans Who We Say We Are?
Howard Zinn, The 5 Immortals , & the 6th Player , Offer Insight into Our Ideals. Photo by Matthias Cooper on Unsplash . Essay Originally Published on Medium . I have been looking into the background of historian and political scientist, Howard Zinn , learning that many say he was not always historically honest , or thorough in his citations and sources. That his interpretations were slanted towards socialism , and consistently shaming the United States for its faults and failures. In one instance he supposedly explains how during WWII many Black Americans were against going to war , using only a few secondary sources like personal letters, and such, as evidence. From my non-exhaustive Google searches, I can find no references to that claim of an anti-war sentiment by a large portion of Black Americans. However, at the same time there is a historical tangent in a somewhat similar direction, about our unconscionable problem of segregation and racism, and doubl